Browsing WISCAPE by Subject "Finance and Economics"
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Low-Income Student Access at UW-Madison and Beyond: Problems and Solutions
(2007-02-23)Levels of access and success in higher education depend on the policies pursued by colleges and universities and the characteristics of applicants, enrollees, and graduates. These often controversial issues are closely ... -
Making the Nation's Investment in Student Access and Success Part I: Refocusing the HEA Reauthorization to Reflect the Priorities of Higher Education Policy Analysts and Researchers
(2004-04-26)In this two-part study, the authors asked 203 of the nation's most active higher education researchers and policy analysts to respond to 86 current ideas for expanding and increasing student success. According to the ... -
Making the Nation's Investment in Student Access and Success Part II: Reorienting the HEA Reauthorization to Reflect What Research-Based Knowledge Says about What Works
(2004-04-26)In this two-part study, the authors asked 203 of the nation's most active higher education researchers and policy analysts to respond to86 current ideas for expanding and increasing student success.According to the ... -
Marshalling Resources for Change: System-Level Initiatives to Increase Access and Success
(2008-06-13)Canada has a highly educated population, and its overall rates of participation in postsecondary education are among the highest in the world. The problem of accessibility in Canadian higher education lies not in the overall ... -
Moving from Fiscal Constraint to New State-University Partnerships
(2003-02-26)Across the United States, state funding as a percentage of total university budgets and state per-capital contributions to public universities continue to decline. In this public forum nationally recognized speakers will ... -
Navigating the College Crunch: Need- Based Aid and the Future of Wisconsin Education and Employment
(2010)The Wisconsin Idea Forum is a biannual event sponsored by the University of Wisconsin System and hosted by system campuses. This is the second in the program series, which brings University of Wisconsin resources to bear ... -
New Approaches to Improving College Access, Persistence, and Success: Three Exemplary Postsecondary Opportunity Programs
(2010-01)Many factors prevent individuals -- underrepresented students in particular -- from enrolling in college and pursuing a postsecondary degree. As a result, admissions applications, enrollments, and graduation rates fall ... -
The Prevalence and Impact of Differential Tuition in Public Research Institutions
(2009-03-25)As Wisconsin?s economy continues to face difficult challenges and the legislature is forced to consider how to fund the state?s public institutions in the coming years, tuition at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will ... -
Promising Examples from Outside Wisconsin
(2009-11-17)The fall 2009 forum, hosted by the Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education (WISCAPE) on the University of Wisconsin?Madison campus, will bring together policymakers, practitioners, students, scholars, ... -
Reexamining the Structure and Funding of Public Higher Education in Wisconsin
(2006-10-26)This forum will examine where Wisconsin stands relative to other states, in the past and present, based on a new measure of state funding for higher education and whether the state and its public universities should consider ... -
Return to the Top: The Role of Increasing College Productivity in America's Quest for Global Leadership in Degree Attainment
(2010-04-20)As America's supply of skilled workers falls behind demand, the country is losing its long-held advantage over competing nations. Many leaders -- most notably President Obama -- have made it a national priority to return ... -
A Simple Unifying Measure of State Support for Higher Education
(2007-04)Conflicting measures of state support for higher education create confusion and misunderstanding that convolute debates about states' postsecondary education funding. The use of multiple measures is largely unnecessary, ... -
Simplifying the FAFSA through Tax Preparation
(2010-05-17)The fall 2009 forum, hosted by the Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education (WISCAPE) on the University of Wisconsin?Madison campus, will bring together policymakers, practitioners, students, scholars, ... -
Some Consequences of Differential Undergraduate Tuition Increases at UW-Madison
(2007-05-02)Annual percentage increases in UW-Madison tuition rates for in-state and out-of-state undergraduates have typically been almost identical. But beginning in 1999, increases for the two rates were significantly different ... -
State Need Grant: The major grant program for the state of Washington
(2009-11-17)The Wisconsin Idea Forum is a biannual event sponsored by the University of Wisconsin System and hosted by system campuses. This is the second in the program series, which brings University of Wisconsin resources to bear ... -
The (Un)Productivity of American Colleges: From "Cost Disease" to Cost-Effectiveness
(2010-03-19)We show that the productivity of American colleges and universities in terms of degree production is plummeting. This is partly due to rising costs that economists typically attribute to Baumol's well known "cost disease," ... -
The (Un)Productivity of American Higher Education: From "Cost Disease" to Cost-Effectiveness
(2010-12)Productivity in academic degrees granted by American colleges and universities is declining. While there is some evidence this is caused by an uncontrollable "cost disease," this study examines two additional explanations. ... -
Who Ever Thought Need-Based Grants Would Increase Low-Income College Enrollment?
(2007-09-18)When Congress established the Basic Education Opportunity Grant (BEOG) program in 1972, research predicted need-based grants would remove an important financial barrier to college attendance and raise college enrollment ... -
The Wisconsin Covenant: Toward a Truly Merit-Based System of Higher Education
(2007-05-09)Governor Doyle recently proposed the Wisconsin Covenant to make college more accessible to low-income residents. This policy brief explains why this is an important goal and how the proposal should be designed to best ... -
Workforce Effects on Wisconsin's Economy
(2009-11-17)The fall 2009 forum, hosted by the Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education (WISCAPE) on the University of Wisconsin?Madison campus, will bring together policymakers, practitioners, students, scholars, ...